In September 2020, Maharashtra Medical Council had received a complaint from one PARA alleging that they represented victims and levelled various charges against Dr. Yusuf Merchant. Dr. Merchant is the well known and charismatic founder president of Drug Abuse Information Rehabilitation and Research centre, in Mumbai. It was Dr Merchant, who got the deadly drug MCAT (Meow Meow) banned in India by filing a PIL, when no one wanted to take on the Drug Mafia even at the cost of the youth of India.

He made many enemies since 1988 due to his All India drug prevention campaigns; and more so after MCAT (Meow Meow) was banned. Dr Merchant had filed a PIL to ban the deadly drug MCAT. PARA itself is an unregistered body and does not even have an address. Dr. Yusuf Merchant was represented by Adv. Shabnam Latiwala and Dr Gopinath Shenoy. After due deliberation, Maharashtra Medical Council effectively dismissed the complaint against Dr. Yusuf Merchant and exonerated him of all the charges, levelled and framed against him.